How healthy is your business, legally?
A business legal health-check helps you see where your business may be exposed before a problem arises. This tool asks a few questions across ownership, contracts, people, premises, money owed and disputes, then gives you a prioritised view of what to deal with first. It is a guide, not advice on your business.
How it works
The health-check works through the areas that most often catch businesses out — how the business is owned, the terms you trade on, your staff and contractor paperwork, your premises, money owed to you, disputes, and your filings and records. It tailors the questions to how your business is set up.
From your answers it produces a prioritised report: each area is flagged by how much attention it needs, with the most pressing first. The aim is not to fix everything at once, but to show you clearly where the real exposure is and where things already look in order.
Each finding points to where the relevant help sits — ownership and governance, employment, commercial property, debt recovery, or dispute resolution — so you can act on the priorities. The areas that look sound are noted too, so you know what you do not need to worry about.
The result is a starting point for a conversation, not a legal audit of your business. If the report flags priorities, talking them through is the quickest way to understand what dealing with each would involve.
Questions about How healthy is your business, legally?
No. It gives a prioritised indication of where your business may be exposed, based on what you enter. Your circumstances may have features that change the picture, so it is a starting point rather than advice.
Promptly. Overdue business debts affect cashflow and become harder to recover the longer they sit, and they carry time limits. A clear process for chasing and escalating overdue invoices protects your position.
Yes. Nothing you enter into the health-check is stored unless you choose to submit the callback form, and anything you share is treated in confidence.
Usually, yes. A dispute is almost always cheaper and easier to resolve before positions harden and costs build up. A live dispute in particular benefits from the right strategy from the outset.
Out-of-date or informal contracts and policies expose you to employment claims, and treating someone as a contractor when they are really an employee can bring tax and holiday-pay liability. Current paperwork and correct status reduce both risks.
It is a structured review of the main areas of legal risk in a business — ownership, contracts, people, premises, debts and disputes — that highlights where you may be exposed and what to prioritise, before issues turn into problems.
Your terms only protect you if they are in place before the work starts. Trading on verbal or inconsistent terms leaves price, payment, liability and how to end an arrangement open to dispute. Consistent written terms close that down.
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